[lace] Card Exchange
Thank you Carol for the lovely Christmas Card that you have sent to me on behalf of the Arachne Group as part of the Card Exchange. The little lace Rocking Horse is very pretty Merry Christmas Faye Owers Tasmania [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] 2007 Card Exchange website
Hello one and all I am nearly ready to unveil the 2007 Arachne Card Exchange webpages but would like to give you all one last chance to scan and send in your cards. I have received over 30 photos/scans so far. Please send them direct to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] , note where you got your pattern, what thread you used, who you sent it to or anything you feel we would like to know about your lace. I will add them to the website and on Friday will email the web address to Arachne for all to have a look. Do not forget that if you have done an original piece, we would love you to share your pattern with us too. They will be compiled into a PDF file similar to the one we did last year. Speaking of past card exchanges, you may like to look at them 2004 - organized by Brenda Paternoster have photos at http://homepage.mac.com/bejoyce/arachne/ 2005 - Arachne Christmas Card Exchange organized by Bev Walker have photos at http://homepage.mac.com/bejoyce/arachne2005/ 2006 - organised by Alice Howell with photos at http://www.brandis.com.au/2006/ We can be very proud of what we have done - and I am proud to be able to display your work in this manner. Thank you for sharing. Jenny Brandis Kununurra, Western Australia - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] dachsund pattern
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Kim Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes HI! I am looking for a pattern for a Torchon dachshund. I purchased the most adorable bobbin lace bookmark of a dachsund at the Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, CA yesterday. Does anyone know where I might find this pattern? I am interested in making another one. Thanks, Kim If you get responses that it is Giles and has been in CLG, Young Lacemaker (UK Lace Guild) and Lacemaker (Lacemaker's Circle magazine) let me know and I will send you the patterns - if this is the case it is the one that I designed to raise money for a local hospice in 1991, it was published between 1993 and 1996. There is also a key ring version, worked in very fine thread to a 1mm grid, if you feel up to it! Also, then, if you have any problems, let me know - the hiccups come with setting in for the body, and the fiddle of darning in the legs (having made 45 or so I've worked out a few ways of doing so!). If it is Giles, I'm pleased he is still being used for charitable purposes, but it is nice to know what use the pattern is being put to! -- Jane Partridge - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] A public blog party on the Met's Costume exhibit
I received an email encouraging me to notify all who might be interested that the Metropolitan Museum of Art is having a blog party about their upcoming exhibit Blog mode: Addressing Fashion at _http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/_ (http://blog.metmuseum.org/blogmode/) The show includes forty costumes and accessories dating from the 18th century to the present. Each of the costumes is in a thumbnail. Of course, I was trying to blow up some of the later listed costumes, looking for our favorite textile, lace, but I could only blow up the first three items. I think that they are writing an introductory blog on one item each day, thus initiating the blog on that item, since there are now, only three items that seem to be fully functional in terms of enlarging them in size and blogging on them. I may be wrong about this since my computer skills are limited. In any case, the purpose of the blog party is to stimulate a dialogue about fashion. Apparently there will even be terminals in the museum where you can blog about your reactions to the costumes. I can tell by squinting at the thumbnails that a couple of the dresses are 18th century and may well have lace on them worthy of comment when they are finally rolled out for blogging. Devon **See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop000304) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace] Buddy Map- Jo Falkirk
Hello Jo, Please would you take me off the Buddy Map, many thanks, I don't want to interfere with moderator tasks/opinions of Lori. Please see the instructions on the map page. Jo *Not* the Lacefary, just the developper of the map page http://lace.lacefairy.com/Map http://www.xs4all.nl/~falkink/lace/eval-EN.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] dachsund pattern
Hello Kim Giles the Dog - designed by Jane Partridge (to raise funds for St Giles Hospice, Whittington Staffs) and published by The Lace Guild in YLM magazine no 32 (1992). Brenda HI! I am looking for a pattern for a Torchon dachshund. I purchased the most adorable bobbin lace bookmark of a dachsund at the Lace Museum in Sunnyvale, CA yesterday. Does anyone know where I might find this pattern? I am interested in making another one. Brenda in Allhallows, Kent http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/index.html - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] More questions of terminology :)
Gentle Spiders, My OIDFA Bulletin arrived today and in it a pattern for a really lovely, 3-D (accordion-folded), star. Just what my tree is missing, so I want to make it (the sooner the better; hopefully, I can still add it this year g). But. The evil question of terminology rides again... 1) The author of the pattern is German (Anneliese Schröder). When she says linen 40/2, which brand is she likely to be using? Not all 40//2 are of the same thickness... 2) Most of the star is made in half stitch -- no problem there. But some bits are to be made in whole stitch. Which whole stitch is it; the English (CTC), or the non-English (CTCT)? The French translation of the same bit says toile. My French is non-existent but, doesn't toile mean cloth stitch, ie CTC? Which would make it the English whole stitch. Could someone with French confirm, please? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace] More questions of terminology :)
I made the star - work CT throughout except for CTCT at the edges. It would be too flopsy otherwise. I used Moravia 40/2 at the enlarged size (120%). My star looks fine. You can also make it at the size given with a finer thread of course - maybe a linen 50/2 ? Have fun, it is a cool design. Several nice patterns in this issue actually. On Dec 19, 2007 3:58 PM, Tamara P Duvall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) The author of the pattern is German (Anneliese Schröder). When she says linen 40/2, which brand is she likely to be using? 2) Most of the star is made in half stitch -- no problem there. But some bits are to be made in whole stitch. Which whole stitch is it; -- Bev (near Sooke, BC on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: More questions of terminology :)
On Dec 19, 2007, at 19:15, bevw wrote: I made the star - work CT throughout except for CTCT at the edges. What about the c row for the switch of workers? That's supposed to be made with the same stitch as the edge ones. I was inclined to make it in CTCT and the edge ones ditto -- as you advise -- but that toile in the French text had me wary. I used Moravia 40/2 at the enlarged size (120%). I was planning on using Moravia 40/2 Metallic thread; discovered it a couple of months ago and it was love at first stitch. Photocopied the pattern at 110% and was wondering if it would be enough to accomodate 7 passive pairs. Didn't *quite* look like it to me, but Fresia and Bouc 40/2 linens have the same number of wraps in Brenda's book -- 20 -- as the Moravia Metallic 40/2, so, theoretically, I should have been able to use the pricking without any change, unless the linen used in the sample was *Bockens* 40/2, which has 23 wraps. That's why I was asking about the brand of linen which was likely to have been used. If the sample is made in Bockens, then I should probably photocopy the pricking at 115%. Many thanks. -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] More questions of terminology :)
On 19 Dec 2007, at 20:49, Tamara P Duvall wrote: What about the c row for the switch of workers? That's supposed to be made with the same stitch as the edge ones. I was inclined to make it in CTCT and the edge ones ditto -- as you advise -- but that toile in the French text had me wary. I too have made it, using the same thread as Bev. For the 'c' row, the worker pair from the left works into the centre and is left there. Then starting from the right, I worked CTCTpinCTCT right across the row. Margot Walker in Halifax on the east coast of Canada Visit the Seaspray Guild of Lacemakers web site: http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/quinbot - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace] Re: More questions of terminology :)
On Dec 19, 2007, at 20:25, Margot Walker wrote: I too have made it, using the same thread as Bev. Moravia 40/2 *linen*? Did you enlarge the pricking, the way Bev had done? If so, how much? For the 'c' row, the worker pair from the left works into the centre and is left there. Sorry. Should have said for the workers switching sides rather than for the switch of workers. But I did get how it needs to be worked, honest :) Then starting from the right, I worked CTCTpinCTCT right across the row. OK, why CTCT, p, CTCT and not just CTCT? Isn't it harder to fold accross the line of pinholes than having a ridge of CTCT on top of the fold? -- Tamara P Duvallhttp://t-n-lace.net/ Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland) - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Chocolate Applesauce Fruitcake
It's the middle of the night and I can't sleep, so I decided to share a favorite family recipe. This was created by my mother about 50 years ago and has been made by various family members every year since. Chocolate Applesauce Fruitcake In a large mixing bowl, sift: 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch 3 tablespoons powdered baking cocoa 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon cloves Make a hole in the middle of the pile of dry ingredients. pour in: 1 16-ounce can (or 1-1/2 cups) applesauce Make a hole in the middle of the applesauce and put in: 1 egg Start mixing by beating egg briefly then mix egg with applesauce. Then mix everything until all dry ingredients are moist. Gently fold in optional additions of your choice -- about one cup total: chopped nuts (I use walnuts) black raisins golden raisins currants candied fruits maraschino cherries chopped dried apricots or other fruits Last option -- stir in 1/4 cup brandy or sherry (I use apricot or cherry brandy) LAST -- stir in 1 tablespoon oil Put in pans of your choice (not greased). Decorate tops with nut halves and/or maraschino cherries. Bake at 350 degrees. Entire recipe in a bundt pan takes one hour. Two bread loaf pans, check at 30 minutes. 5-inch loaf pans, check at 20 minutes. Let cool briefly, then remove from pans to cool on rack. When cool, wrap in plastic wrap to keep moist. Store in refrigerator. Freezes well. Note: Makes a good chocolate cake without optional items. Dried raisins and other fruits are better if plumped. Put in a pan, cover with water and bring to a boil. Remove from heat and let set 10 minutes. Drain well. Merry Christmas everyone! Alice in Oregon -- where I painted holly leaves on my new red cast in honor of the season, and plan to make this recipe later today (with one hand) To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [lace-chat] Chocolate Applesauce Fruitcake
Thanks Alice That sounds really scrummy cake I have just printed out the recipe but tell me please what is a bundtpan here in the UK I mostly use round or square cake tins usually about 8 would that be ok do you think? Sue M Harvey Norfolk UK To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [lace-chat] Chocolate Applesauce Fruitcake
On 12/18/07 9:55 AM, Sue wrote: what is a bundtpan An angel-food cake pan with a fancy bottom, so that it looks pretty when unmolded. Also called tube pan: a round pan with a tube in the middle. Plain angel-food pans are shaped like a truncated cone, with another cone in the middle. (The cones point opposite ways so the cake can come out.) The hole in a bundt, if I recall correctly, is much wider than the hole in an angel-food cake. I haven't used the bundt option on my springform pan in decades -- come to think of it, I haven't used the *pan* in decades; I'm not 100% certain that I've still got it. I bake all my cakes in miniature loaf pans these days. There are four cooling on a rack now, waiting to be gift-wrapped. I've found a sure-fire way to get a cake out of a loaf pan in one piece: put half an inch of chopped nuts in the bottom of the pan. A layer of sliced almonds also loosens a cake, and the white middles and brown edges make a pretty pattern on the bottom of the cake, but the slices don't all stick to the cake, so you have to scrape them out of the pan and eat them. -- Joy Beeson http://joybeeson.home.comcast.net/ http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/ http://n3f.home.comcast.net/ -- Writers' Exchange west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where I got around to sweeping last Sunday's snow off the car today. To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[lace-chat] Fruitcake correction
The baking time is incorrect on the loaf and small loaf pans. I just did a couple batches. Sorry -- I was going by memory because my recipe lists only the large pan. Small loaf pans will take 30-40 minutes. Large loaf pans would be 45-50 minutes. I'm sure you all have ways to test if a cake is done. Best wishes, Alice To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace-chat [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
